Update: 13 Jan­u­ary 2026

Genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­isms in my food, in my gar­den, on my field? Today, strict GMO reg­u­la­tions ensure that all genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­isms are assessed for risks, labelled, and trace­able. Con­sumers, farm­ers, and breed­ers can rely on this to make informed choic­es about what they eat and grow.

This right to trans­paren­cy and free­dom of choice is now under threat. The Euro­pean Union is plan­ning a major carve-out from its GMO laws. Most plants engi­neered using new GM tech­niques – such as the “gene scis­sors” CRISPR/Cas – would then be mar­ket­ed with­out prop­er labelling, trace­abil­i­ty, or pri­or risk assess­ment.

The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, Coun­cil and Com­mis­sion have already agreed on this mas­sive weak­en­ing of EU GMO law. In Decem­ber 2025, EU Mem­ber States infor­mal­ly endorsed the agree­ment.

How­ev­er, the final deci­sion lies with the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment. Will it agree to this sweep­ing dereg­u­la­tion? In 2024, Par­lia­ment had called for manda­to­ry labelling and trace­abil­i­ty for all GMO prod­ucts and vot­ed in favour of a ban on patent­ed seeds.

Save Our Seeds calls on Mem­bers of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment to safe­guard GMO-free farm­ing and the labelling of GMO foods, and to stand up for the pro­tec­tion of organ­ic plant breed­ing. We reject patents on seeds

MEPs must not approve the Decem­ber agree­ment with­out sub­stan­tial improve­ments. Please use our email tool to send this demand direct­ly to the par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

The tool will remain active until the ple­nary vote in spring. The emails are pre-writ­ten – just select the coun­try and the MEPs, and send your mes­sage!